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In which she discovers the honorable lineage of a highborn drunkard
So that your blood may be known / you tell everyone, Alfeo, / you come from kings; I believe / you are of very fine stock, / and that you anger all you meet / with your talk about those kings, / who, more than the kings of swords, / must have been the kings of cups.
2 Swords and cups are two of the suits in the Spanish deck (baraja), which is similar to the tarot deck.